Interesting Reads

The End of the Office and the Future of Work

"The Parents We Mean To Be:How Well-Intentioned Adults Undermine Children's Moral & Emotional Development"

Shift Happens

Did You Know 4.0

Through Web 2.0

ThatsNotCool.com

The Wonder of Boys

The Hurried Child

[[http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=58438 |Teachers Are Like Mirrors]] (so are parents)

Not Their Parent's Online World

ISTE's books

When Success Means Escaping the Boring Prison of School

Remember


Central Florida Circle of Change - After the Challenge

http://synthesizingeducation.com/blog/2010/01/18/the-ugly-truth-of-what-we-teach-in-schools
and
http://educationaltechnologyguy.blogspot.com/2010/01/should-we-force-students-to-learn.html





look at kids' favorited YouTube vidz or kids' use of Facebook. There are a lot of issues with both.

read Twilight, Harry Potter and teen mags - I also ski with them and always offer to drive the kids & company to events.

for baby gifts I give Reading Magic by Mem Fox + a baby board book.

learn a lot about my students' world by watching iCarly and other Disney shows that they love.